Michele Casali is a middle-class professor in Fascist Italy who teaches at the same high school attended by his only daughter, Giovanna. A shy and sensitive girl, her insecurities are only magnified by Michele's overprotectiveness—reaching a point of no return.
Avventore in taverna
Ilha de Elba, 1814. A comunidade local está eufórica. Tudo por que o glorioso Napoleão Bonaparte se exila na ilha logo após abandonar o título de Imperador. Todos os moradores, a maioria pessoas simples, veem a chegada de Napoleão como um presente dos deuses. O professor Martino é o único morador que não está contente com essa história, pois vê como uma ameaça. Por ironia do destino, Napoleão acaba contratando Martino como seu secretário particular e ele fica responsável por escrever as memórias do homem que ele mais odeia. Em meio a um romance com a bela Emília, ele se verá em uma difícil situação, já que, terá chance de assinar o imperador, mesmo sabendo que sua admiração por Napoleão, cresce cada vez mais.
When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance scattered across the countryside finds a new purpose in his lonely life.
Piccioni
In a shabby residence on the coast between Livorno and Pisa, Mario, known as "Il Cormorano", a grumpy and disillusioned young man, works as a plumber to scrape together the sum necessary to realize his dream. He wants to join his uncle Piero in America to become an underground musician. His story is intertwined with that of Nevio, the cynical manager of the residence, of Gabriella, his naive and dreamy lover and of the maid Gaia who behind has a past as a drug addict, with whom Mario has a relationship of hate love. But reality is not as rosy as dreams:
Rome, 1929. The Pope's tailor sends his only son, 35-year-old virgin Nello, to more liberal Bologna hoping he will find a wife. His head full of ideas on romantic love instilled by classical poetry, Nello hopelessly falls for Angela, a beautiful blind woman who indulges him only to win back her fiancé.
Furio Brondi
From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.
Livio
A deaf man rebels against his controlling mother by dating a high-school drop-out who shares his disability.
